From the category archives:

Content Management Solutions (CMS)

A Pioneering Approach to College Admissions

January 20, 2012

This post was written by Marianne Amoss, Fastspot’s content strategist and resident writer.
What is the next generation of admissions marketing? And how can we integrate Web marketing and print marketing? These are questions that plague universities and colleges across the country, as they struggle with the cost and manpower required to keep materials updated and [...]

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What makes a good Content Management System (and why we built our own)

November 2, 2011

Re-posting this article due to lots of discussion lately – let us know what you think!
Before clients see BigTree CMS, Fastspot’s proprietary content management system, they often ask us why we built our own when there are so many out there that we could have simply used. When they ask me, I usually picture this. I [...]

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The 10/90 Flaw in CMS Design

March 15, 2011

There is a fatal flaw in many of the content management systems (CMS) out on the market today. I refer to it as the 10/90 failure. The CMS has naturally evolved to provide complex functionalities that are desirable to about 10% of its eventual users, often created in response to the request of developers and [...]

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Denote for Good, Not Evil

May 26, 2010

We created Denote, a tool to allow for the communication on live sites between client and vendor. It’s up to you to use it for good, not evil.

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Content Management Systems Matter More than Website Design

March 17, 2010

The content creator’s biggest challenge should be in coming up with the messages, not inputting them into the system.

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